Machine knitting again

I have finally gotten my knitting machine “working,” well a bit better than I did last time.

This is some lovely silk/alpaca in lace weight from Princess Farms. I wanted to make a shawl in plain stockinette — you would think that this would not be so difficult for one familiar with the ways of the fibre, such was myself (or perhaps more to the point, I would think that), but the machine had different plans:

Yes, that is a big hole in my beautiful shawl. I waxed the yarn and everything, and now I have a huge hole (and a couple little ones). I also ran out of yarn before I bound off, so I tried my trick from before of making the knitting jump right off the machine by running the carriage over the needles without any yarn in it.

That part definately worked — I am glad that hand knitting isn’t so enthusiastic about jumping off the needles like that.

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[…] Would really be worth cracking out the needles for. They are by Mari Muinonen and published in the current issue of Vogue Knitting (spring/summer 2009), Ravelry link here. I think I would make them a little longer and substitute a lace wieght yarn in a dark colour, like this. […]